How to Use graveyard shift in a Sentence

graveyard shift

noun
  • She was put on the schedule for the next graveyard shift.
    Erika Hayasaki, The Atlantic, 5 May 2020
  • The place that employed Easterling and Bocks was a sprawling, 1,050-acre site, and the two worked the graveyard shift.
    cincinnati.com, 17 Mar. 2020
  • Those graveyard shift workers were forced to lie face down on the floor, while the robbers tied their hands and feet with duct tape.
    Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Holder took a forklift-driver job on the graveyard shift, with a cut in pay, to get away from Long.
    Christine Willmsen, The Seattle Times, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The next month, Sheriff Scott demoted him to work the graveyard shift as a jailer.
    Jerry Mitchell Rory Doyle, New York Times, 19 July 2023
  • Wood was working the graveyard shift alone the night of the shooting, according to reports.
    Matt Bruce, ajc, 11 May 2022
  • His father works the graveyard shift at the Franz bakery in Northeast Portland, about nine miles away.
    oregonlive, 1 June 2020
  • My newly single mom worked the graveyard shift as a nurse in the psych ward of our local hospital to make ends meet.
    May Cobb, Good Housekeeping, 24 July 2023
  • Ronda Soto, 60, who grew up about a mile north of the courts, works the graveyard shift as a security guard.
    New York Times, 1 June 2021
  • Everybody loves a fall picnic—just ask the graveyard shift!
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Sep. 2022
  • One night on the graveyard shift, Mayo watched a cleaning lady push her cart down a darkened hallway.
    Cara Kelly, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2019
  • And fell apart to where the father of six had to take a graveyard shift at Costco to try to make ends meet, according to a story in Billboard.
    Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Bartending could be fun, but the worst was working the graveyard shift at a lamb slaughterhouse.
    Drew Champlin, AL.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • As Frank, Cage's character works the graveyard shift in a two-man ambulance.
    Michael Lee Simpson, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Her graveyard shift was set around her child-care routines: day care, help from an aunt, getting her oldest child to school.
    Dan Morse, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
  • On Wednesday morning, Fritch knew something was amiss when her husband, who worked the graveyard shift, wasn’t home yet.
    Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2021
  • The night after the panga landed in San Clemente, the Coast Guard alerted agents on a graveyard shift that swimmers had been spotted on video crossing the line.
    New York Times, 28 Jan. 2021
  • In his sophomore year, while on the graveyard shift at his part-time job, Dunn suddenly felt knifelike pains in his stomach.
    Nanette Asimov, SFChronicle.com, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Neiro Vargas, the security guard, was walking home from his 14-hour graveyard shift when he was caught in the neck by a stray bullet.
    Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Nine months later, a rookie cop working the graveyard shift in San Diego spotted the black Thunderbird.
    Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Her husband works graveyard shifts at a food packaging plant.
    Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 5 Apr. 2020
  • After working a graveyard shift at UPS, Luigi got into a car crash.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2020
  • One night in early May, a ventilator alarm went off during the graveyard shift.
    USA Today, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Downs began his career at Heaven Hill on the bottling line in 1976 and transitioned to a role working the graveyard shift in the distillery in a matter of months.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 6 June 2022
  • The children were reared on the graveyard shift, with the family staying up all night and going to bed shortly before dawn, Hestrin said.
    Amy Taxin, Time, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Laid off from the warehouse job his friend Tommy got him, Oscar sold tacos from a stand outside parties and worked the graveyard shift at a convenience store.
    Jonathan Bullington, courier-journal.com, 20 July 2014
  • Clegg was carrying $1,200 in his wallet at the time, the equivalent of four weeks of pay from his job working the graveyard shift as a janitor at the restaurant, records show.
    Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Combs, for example, works the graveyard shift, begins each workday at 1:30 a.m. His days off are Thursday and Sunday.
    Peter Whoriskey, The Seattle Times, 24 Dec. 2017
  • For decades Bintliff worked the graveyard shift as a printing press operator and Joanne was a typesetter for the same company.
    Emma Baccellieri, SI.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The mothers and grandmothers oversee the chaos from balconies that overlook the parking lot, waving as their neighbors leave for work or come back from the graveyard shift.
    Bianca Padró Ocasio, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 June 2018

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